Author: Avi Selk
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Flames and screams after two jetliners collide at Toronto airport
Two jetliners collided at a Toronto airport Friday, setting a wing on fire and sending dozens of terrified passengers fleeing into the cold. A Boeing 737 landed at Pearson International Airport shortly after sundown, ferrying 168 WestJet passengers from Cancun, Mexico. Outside, on an evening of record-setting cold in Toronto, workers were towing an empty…
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Border agents let a man get married at the gate — then realized he was a convicted drug smuggler
The ceremony was so lovely that even one of the stone-faced U.S. border guards cracked a smile as they held a gate open while an American groom and his Mexican bride took their wedding vows last month. From the Tijuana side of the wall: Evelia Reyes and her young daughter, each with white gowns but no visas. From the California side: a beaming Brian Zachary Houston,…
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Why a man left a box of manure for Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
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It was one of those gag cards you can buy in a drugstore. “Merry Catsmess!” read the caption. And in a personal touch, as if for emphasis, Robby Strong had enclosed a box of horse manure. “To Stevie,” he wrote on the envelope, meaning Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, for whose doorstep the manure was bound.…
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Uber driver charged with raping 16-year-old passenger
Police were called to an apartment complex outside Atlanta in the dark hours of Monday morning to find an extremely intoxicated 16-year-old girl with her pants around her ankles, they said. She told Gwinnett County police officers that her Uber driver had just raped her. Now that driver is in jail, and police say the girl may…
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VIDEO: They made her put out her cigarette. She then threatened to kill everyone on the plane.
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Southwest Airlines says it all started with a cigarette. A passenger was smoking in the bathroom somewhere between Portland and Sacramento on Saturday, according to the airline, and had gone so far as to tamper with the smoke detector. So a flight attendant barged in on the woman, according to KOIN 6. This at least got…
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This man is about to launch himself in his homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat
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Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of the Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet high on Saturday in a rocket he built from scrap metal. Assuming the 500-mph, mile-long flight through the Mojave Desert does not kill him, Mike Hughes told the Associated Press, his journey into the atmosflat will mark the first phase of his ambitious flat-Earth space program. Hughes’s ultimate goal is a…
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A dying vet needed CPR. Hidden video shows his nurse laughing instead.
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By the late winter of 2014, James Dempsey had served in a world war, raised children, buried a wife and seen the best of his health behind him. As he prepared for a stay at a nursing home on the outskirts of Atlanta, the 89-year-old began to feel nervous. So his family hid a camera…
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Please stop annoying this NASA scientist with Planet X doomsday theories
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David Morrison is a real NASA scientist who studies real planets and makes real discoveries about the real universe. Unfortunately for him, Morrison’s duties also include debunking perennial internet theories that a fake planet is about to destroy the Earth, which was supposed to happen in 2003, then 2012, then Sept. 23, then October –…
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These crabs can grow up to 3 feet — and hunt birds, a biologist’s video proves
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There’s a theory that giant crabs overwhelmed Amelia Earhart, dismembered her and carried her bones underground. Speculative, at best. Sounds crazy, we know. But so has almost every other horrifying rumor about the so-called coconut crabs — until science inevitably proves them true. They grow to the size of dogs. They climb trees, and tear through solid matter with claws nearly as…
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How a wife’s suspicions of infidelity diverted an entire flight
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Today’s episode in our never-ending series on airplane trips gone astray because of human frailty comes from east Asia — though it could just as easily have happened in the skies over Los Angeles or Australia or anywhere else on the planet. It begins in Doha on Sunday morning, when a married couple boarded a…